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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Photo: World's Largest Sheep Are "Icons" of Threatened Region, Naturalist Says


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The skull of a Marco Polo sheep in the Pamir Mountains of southwestern Asia.

Biologist George Schaller has been taking a census of the world's largest sheep species in an effort to draw attention to the need for conservation in the remote mountain region.

Photograph © G. Schaller/WCS